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A005288 C(n,5)+C(n,4)-C(n,3)+1, n >= 7.
(Formerly M3090)
3
3, 22, 71, 169, 343, 628, 1068, 1717, 2640, 3914, 5629, 7889, 10813, 14536, 19210, 25005, 32110, 40734, 51107, 63481, 78131, 95356, 115480, 138853, 165852, 196882, 232377, 272801, 318649, 370448, 428758, 494173, 567322 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

6,1

REFERENCES

F. N. David, M. G. Kendall and D. E. Barton, Symmetric Function and Allied Tables, Cambridge, 1966, p. 241.

D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, Vol. 3, p. 15.

R. H. Moritz and R. C. Williams, A coin-tossing problem and some related combinatorics, Math. Mag., 61 (1988), 24-29.

E. Netto, Lehrbuch der Combinatorik. 2nd ed., Teubner, Leipzig, 1927, p. 96.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

S. Plouffe, Approximations de S\'{e}ries G\'{e}n\'{e}ratrices et Quelques Conjectures, Dissertation, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

S. Plouffe, 1031 Generating Functions and Conjectures, Universit\'{e} du Qu\'{e}bec \`{a} Montr\'{e}al, 1992.

FORMULA

C(n+3, 5)-C(n+2, 3)+C(n, 0).

MAPLE

A005288:=(3+4*z-16*z**2+13*z**3-z**4-3*z**5+z**6)/(z-1)**6; [Conjectured by S. Plouffe in his 1992 dissertation.]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A008302.

Sequence in context: A159345 A006532 A178492 * A143166 A055550 A075204

Adjacent sequences:  A005285 A005286 A005287 * A005289 A005290 A005291

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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